There may be a 1-sentence secondary headline or an image between the title of the post and the date. Keep scrolling to see if the date is listed below the secondary headline or image. Some articles may have been updated after their publication date. When this is the case, you should see a disclaimer at the beginning or the end of the article that says when it was edited and why.
The date a site was updated is the last time anything was added or changed on the site. That means the information you’re reading may have been published at an earlier date. However, a recent copyright or update means that the site is active and being updated, so the information may be trustworthy. Look at the section of the article that contains a short bio of the author. Sometimes, the date may be right above or below it.
Make sure you are on the web page dedicated to the individual post and not an archive or index page. Click on the post’s headline to confirm you’re on the post-specific page. Many blogs edit the URL so it’s shorter and easier to search, so you may not find the date there.
You can’t use this date to cite a website. However, it can help you gauge when the website was published, so you’ll have an idea of how old the information is. If it seems recent, you might decide to go ahead and use the website but cite it as “no date. ”
Make sure you copy and paste the full address.
Don’t include the quotation marks. This might sound tricky, but you don’t need to do anything special to use this operator. All you need to do is type it in and Google will handle the rest.
Don’t include the quotation marks. This might sound tricky, but you don’t need to do anything special to use this operator. All you need to do is type it in and Google will handle the rest.
This is the second part to the “inurl:” operator. It’s okay to copy-and-paste the code if that’s easier for you.
If you don’t see the date, you may be able to add a custom search by date range to figure out when the article was published. Continue to the next step if the date is still not available.
Alternatively, you can click Past year to do a quick search to see if the website was published within the last year. This is a good way to check to see if an article is current.
Depending on your browser, the menu option may read “View Page Info” or similar.
If none of the search terms work, type “PublishedDate”, “datePublished,” “published_time” into the “Find” function. This could bring up the publication information. If you want to know when a web page was last changed or updated, search the source code for “modified. ”
You can use this date to cite the website or to determine how old the information on the website may be.
Here’s an example: Aranda, Arianna. “Understanding Expressive Poems. ” Poetry Scholar, 7 Nov. 2016, www. poetryscholar. com/understanding-expressive-poems.
This is an example: American Robotics Club. (2018). Building Complex Robots. Retrieved from www. americanroboticsclub. com/building-complex-robots
Here’s an example: Li, Quan. “Examining Art. ” Insights into Culture. Last Modified February 12, 2015. www. insightsintoculture. com/examining-art.
